Your Mail 12-11-13: 'Danger does not exist' ... 'Too many cheat the system' ... A cure for 'Obamacare'

'Danger does not exist'

The subject of plastic guns has been at the fore in Congress, and the media has promoted the idea that plastic guns can be used to kill people.

Plastic guns are manufactured with plugged barrels, and they are not capable of shooting bullets. Guns that shoot bullets must have metal barrels (X-ray detectable), but some congressmen and the media have led the public to believe that they pose a danger to the flying public.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is introducing legislation to require all "guns" to have some metal parts. Real guns have that now, but the anti-gun crowd is simply using the issue to alarm the flying public to a danger which does not exist.

Francis Elliott, Pineville

'Many cheat the system'

To Washington, state and local politicians: If you want to really honor our veterans and all service personnel, don't think of cutting their salaries or closing PXs and commissaries.

Some give the ultimate sacrifice, while some come home severely disabled. You sit at your desk, in suits and ties, while they carry backpacks that weigh up to 110 pounds in various unfavorable conditions.

You pass laws that are so bad you exempt yourselves from following them, as with "Obamacare." This means you say: "Don't do what I do; do what I tell you to do."

Wake up, Americans! There are too many people - whose votes were bought with giveaway programs (our money) - who are cheating the system.

Talk is cheap. What we need is action.

Isidore Aucoin, Lafayette

A cure for 'Obamacare'

The cure for "Obamacare" would be to deport all liberal Democrats to communist China in exchange for all of China's genuine Christians, with the exceptions of Roman Catholics and all other "Christian cultists" that way, the liberals would be unable to reproduce, due to China's infanticide.

And they would soon die off, but not before experiencing the Chinese version of Obama's nightmare. Also, American Christians should not be deceived by the Jesuit pope's recent defense of statist economics.

After all, consider the statements of John Adams: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation of Earth and in hell, it is this society of Loyola."

And William Tyndale was also forthright: "Aaron made a golden calf, but the pope maketh bulls."

Robert F. Taylor, Shreveport

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